US Patent:
20130024690, Jan 24, 2013
Inventors:
Girija Bhagavatula - Redmond WA, US
Aidan Downes - Seattle WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Bellevue WA, US
Neeraj Garg - Hyderabad, IN
Anand Lakshminarayanan - Redmond WA, US
Bimal K. Mehta - Sammamish WA, US
Deepak Rao - Bellevue WA, US
Rahul Thatte - Hyderabad, IN
Assignee:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 15/16
H04L 9/32
Abstract:
A centralized service communicatively links an application provider to a plurality of different message forwarding services. The centralized service receives a request and authenticates the application provider associated with the request. Further, the centralized service delivers a message embodied by the request to a first message forwarding service with a first protocol and/or to a second message forwarding service with a second protocol different than the first protocol.